Locals to respond to Obama's tuition challenge
President Barack Obama called Friday for an overhaul of the higher education financial aid system, warning that colleges and universities that fail to control spiraling tuition costs could lose fed...
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Power is out; classes go on
Monroe Middle School students found a number of dark classrooms when they arrived at school Friday morning.
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Cuthbertson sophomore Shelton Mitchell (4), getting his blocked by Monroe junior Quayshawn Chambers, finished with 20 points and eight assists to lead his team to victory.
Cavs stay perfect in RRC
Mitchell scores 20, leads CHS to 16-point win over Monroe
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John Hood
Center-Right paths to recovery
Almost everyone in the North Carolina political debate agrees that the state’s stagnant economy is the number one issue. But that’s where the agreement ends.
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MORGAN: I am not always perfect in my faith
I'm a mother. I have one birth child and three step children. I love them all. And I worry about them all. I am told all the time by well meaning people, "Just put them in God's hands."
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Mark Nickens
RELIGION: The Handbook of Erasmus
Erasmus (1469-1536) is considered to be one of the greatest Christian thinkers of his age. As he looked at the Christians around him, he grew concerned because of what he considered to be lackadai...
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Obituaries, Jan. 28, 2012
Marian Reeves
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Kissell's week in Washington
Representative Howard Coble and I may be on opposite sides of the aisle, but we share a common goal—to see more and more things made in America, again.
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Emily Beauchemin with Wally, a patient puppet. (CONTRIBUTED)
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Local woman heading to S. Africa on mission
by Carolyn Steeves
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Weddington-resident Emily Beauchemin will be in South Africa for the next three months, volunteering as a child life specialist at the Red Cross War Memorial Hospital in Cape Town.
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